Ali Hakem Alsaeedi

Ali Hakem Alsaeedi, Suha Mohammed Hadi, Yarub Alazzawi

Images captured in dusty environments suffering from poor visibility and quality. Enhancement of these images such as sand dust images plays a critical role in various atmospheric optics applications. In this work, proposed a new model based on Color Correction and new membership function to enhance san dust images. The proposed model consists of three phases: correction of color shift, removal of haze, and enhancement of contrast and brightness. The color shift is corrected using a new membership function to adjust the values of U and V in the YUV color space. The Adaptive Dark Channel Prior (A-DCP) is used for haze removal. The stretching contrast and improving image brightness are based on Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE). The proposed model tests and evaluates through many real sand dust images. The experimental results show that the proposed solution is outperformed the current studies in terms of effectively removing the red and yellow cast and provides high quality and quantity dust images.

Ghufran Abualhail Alhamzawi, Ali Saeed Alfoudi, Ali Hakem Alsaeedi et al.

Enhancing images in low-light conditions is an important challenge in computer vision. Insufficient illumination negatively affects the quality of images, resulting in low contrast, intensive noise, and blurred details. This paper presents a model for enhancing low-light images called tuning adaptive gamma correction (TAGC). The model is based on analyzing the color luminance of the low-light image and calculating the average color to determine the adaptive gamma coefficient. The gamma value is calculated automatically and adaptively at different illumination levels suitable for the image without human intervention or manual adjustment. Based on qualitative and quantitative evaluation, tuning adaptive gamma correction model has effectively improved low-light images while maintaining details, natural contrast, and correct color distribution. It also provides natural visual quality. It can be considered a more efficient solution for processing low-light images in multiple applications such as night surveillance, improving the quality of medical images, and photography in low-light environments.

Ali Hakem Alsaeedi, Adil L. Albukhnefis, Dhiah Al-Shammary et al.

This paper proposes a novel Extended Particle Swarm Optimization model (EPSO) that potentially enhances the search process of PSO for optimization problem. Evidently, gene expression profiles are significantly important measurement factor in molecular biology that is used in medical diagnosis of cancer types. The challenge to certain classification methodologies for gene expression profiles lies in the thousands of features recorded for each sample. A modified Wrapper feature selection model is applied with the aim of addressing the gene classification challenge by replacing its randomness approach with EPSO and PSO respectively. EPSO is initializing the random size of the population and dividing them into two groups in order to promote the exploration and reduce the probability of falling in stagnation. Experimentally, EPSO has required less processing time to select the optimal features (average of 62.14 sec) than PSO (average of 95.72 sec). Furthermore, EPSO accuracy has provided better classification results (start from 54% to 100%) than PSO (start from 52% to 96%).

Mohammed Hamzah Abed, Ali H. Alsaeedi, Ali D. Alfoudi et al.

Palm vein identification (PVI) is a modern biometric security technique used for increasing security and authentication systems. The key characteristics of palm vein patterns include, its uniqueness to each individual, unforgettable, non-intrusive and cannot be taken by an unauthorized person. However, the extracted features from the palm vein pattern are huge with high redundancy. In this paper, we propose a combine model of two-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) (2D-DWTPP) to enhance prediction of vein palm patterns. The 2D-DWT Extracts features from palm vein images, PCA reduces the redundancy in palm vein features. The system has been trained in selecting high reverent features based on the wrapper model. The PSO feeds wrapper model by an optimal subset of features. The proposed system uses four classifiers as an objective function to determine VPI which include Support Vector Machine (SVM), K Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Decision Tree (DT) and Naïve Bayes (NB). The empirical result shows the proposed system Iit satisfied best results with SVM. The proposed 2D-DWTPP model has been evaluated and the results shown remarkable efficiency in comparison with Alexnet and classifier without feature selection. Experimentally, our model has better accuracy reflected by (98.65) while Alexnet has (63.5) and applied classifier without feature selection has (78.79).